Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Council Secretary James R. Griffin '02 organized a postering campaign to canvass the Yard with pamphlets supporting the increase...
...Bill Bradley Week" began yesterday with students passing out leaflets between classes. It will culminate next weekend in a trip to New Hampshire, where students will canvass for Bradley in preparation for the Democratic primaries there...
...determined that her son Jeremy would fare better. So the year before he was to start kindergarten, she overcame her lifelong shyness and began to canvass her California neighborhood, introducing herself to kids and their parents and setting up play dates with Jeremy's future classmates. In late summer, knowing that teachers often fix up their classrooms in the weeks before school starts, she dropped by the school so she and her son could meet his teacher, who invited them to look around the room. "I think we succeeded," Johnson says. "Jeremy is a happy, social child...
This month, however, state directors of his U.W.S.A.--hired and paid by the national headquarters in Dallas--began organizing public meetings at the county level, ostensibly to canvass the group's rank and file, as well as anyone else who cares to attend, on whether they think formation of a new party is in the national interest. In spirit, the ploy resembles Perot's 1992 appeal for public guidance on whether to run for President...
Padurano declined to give details of her plan for political pressure, except to say that letter-writing would be included. She said tomorrow's meeting will canvass ideas and serve to inspire students to become involved in ending human suffering...